And if the teenagers are trained well enough in the meantime, they just won't bother paying their bills when the time comes.... That might be interesting but I'm sure where the successful business comes in.
Now, if important messages in "other" box become visible along with the important friend messages, this might work but then its just a method of sorting. But if I'm never reminded of anything but the latest gossip from the my friends, I don't think I'll survive well outside a teenage world.
The way I read it, this new type of messaging will only replace a part of why you use email, the part where you communicate with friends.
The other part will remain unchanged, and email would eventually become much more like snail mail is today -- a formal medium for communicating important notices, like bills or legal actions.
The new Facebook messaging system would sort of merge all of your communications to/from friends over email/IM/SMS into one type of much more informal communication.
It seems a little confused really, about whether it will be all of your communication or part of your communication...
But with more methods of electronic communication continually evolving, it seems unlikely you'll ever have a single stratification of messaging systems.
And if the teenagers are trained well enough in the meantime, they just won't bother paying their bills when the time comes.... That might be interesting but I'm sure where the successful business comes in.
Now, if important messages in "other" box become visible along with the important friend messages, this might work but then its just a method of sorting. But if I'm never reminded of anything but the latest gossip from the my friends, I don't think I'll survive well outside a teenage world.